Map of London, that has been replaced by effective GPS. The problem is operators licences, they should block mass purchase with one greedy douche bag buying them up, then slapping massive profit margins on them. Want to fix the problem, one licence per customer and you must be the 'majority' user of that licence. This should be extended out to all regulatory licences, one per customer and they must be the majority user eg fishing licences. This corruption of the principle of regulatory licences to feed the greed of corporations at the expense of the general public must stop. Taxis would be much cheaper if they were all strictly owner operator.
More simply, the lowest tender rarely produces good results. Just because they contracted the lowest tender to clean the towers does not mean it was actually done. So they tendered for a piece of paper saying it had been done and someone went up there and drained the system and immediately refilled it. Incompetence is not as destructive as corruption and corruption is what always gets incompetence in the door, greed driven stupidity.
More likely, nepotism rarely produces successes and only exists because how else will those losers get a job. The more nepotism is entrenched in a bureaucracy the worse the outcomes.
Argumentative idiot how big are the DC current losses in the wiring within a single home, seriously, how big. Also what produces the highest quality lighting DC or AC. To stupidly claim DC is as dangerous AC is just so PR=B$. Psychopathically determined to win an argument rather than discuss anything, go on have the last word.
So exposing a plot by executives to falsely inflate their bonuses at the expense of investors would get you fired, hmm, probably not, in fact the exact opposite. Basically a whole swag of liars in on a scam to inflate their bonuses, nothing more and nothing less. The attitude, so what if we get caught, we will keep our bonuses and the shareholders will get fined, bwa hah hah. This is exactly what happens when you put psychopaths in charge of anything.
Having trouble detecting psychopaths, easy solution test them all when they run and make the results public. Due to genetic conditions psychopaths fail many directly measurable emotional response tests, they absolutely can not fake it. Doing that test will solve many problems especially when it is extended out to other government employee like police officers, intelligence services operatives and analysts, doctors, nurses and teachers.
I just read it as being "Kill em all, let God sort em out". The whole idea that it is an acceptable excuse that 'er' 'um' we are dropping so many bombs we cant really track them all, is just so offensive. Sounds more like orders from the military industrial complex ie drop more bombs, the fourth quarter profits are running a little low and, you need to fire off at least ten more missiles if you are going to achieve quota for early retirement.
They should stop dropping bombs mass murdering people if they do not know what the fuck they are doing. Whoops tee hee is not acceptable for mass murdering people.
An AC wired house vs a DC wired house, death awaits you at every outlet in an AC house and it does not with a DC wired house and DC appliances will be cheaper. Branding on power systems will define their capital value, that has not occurred yet. You are stuck in the cave, basing everything that will be on what was.
Sometimes corporate executives just make stupid mistakes and sometimes corporate executives are paid to make stupid mistakes by their competitors. There a billions of dollars hidden in secret accounts in tax havens with millions shifting from account to account all of the time.
I gather you are saying that IT workers are inherently corrupt, incompetent, ignorant and stupid and would be incapable of managing their union (a big ole screw you for that insult). Yep, that $100 dollars a year versus salary losses of tens of thousands of dollars a year (saving pennies to lose pounds is the appropriate term). Unionising will solve many problems and only create one real problem, corporations attempting to corrupt those unions (face it the coolaid sucks after decades of main stream media propaganda versus the reality of history during that period, yeah, I know the internet sucks balls because it blocks the main stream media news cycle because old stories live on for ever instead of being forgotten when proven false).
So it is all really about crushing wages and employment costs as well as getting free training paid for by other countries, whilst increasing the profitability of local training. You could imagine the likely outcome where the cost of training will outpace the income to be recovered from that training, you can not beat free imported training paid for out of other countries taxes.
So keep buying the propaganda with reduced salary and worse employment conditions and inflating training costs because of course IT workers are far to fucking stupid to manage their Unions, OHHH YEAH (that idea is just so insulting).
Analogue transmission are not possible over fibre optic cable, hence they are tied to the power supply, a continuous connection from the power station to the appliance (so monitoring main power transmission lines for unexpected patterns of course digital on analogue means variable burst transmissions). So internal and external networks with no direct connections that includes power and data and shielded structures and this only for current technology gear.
Long term solution, governments being a whole lot less naughty and thus the need to keep secrets from citizens (to prevent custodial sentences for the various members of various naughty governments) diminishes (forget the lie of keeping secrets from other governments, Manning most emphatically and heroically proved that false).
The cost of complete solar systems panels and batteries is offset by the capital value they add to the property, so unlike renting a power connection and burning capital as energy, it gives the home owner something to sell. So the cost of a complete system has less impact due to the retained capital value of the system (developing branding of complete systems will have a major impact in this ie powered by Tesla or say Toyota vs a cobbled together system), pretty much no different to the air-conditioning or cooking appliances they would power.
The more this comes into practice the more rapid the shift to DC only appliances in the home this not only reducing the cost of those appliances but also the solar power system. Likely it will be cheaper to drop the mains connection than pay a connection fee and for the additional components of a home power system to allow AC into and out of the system, keeping in mind the less power the mains power system supplies and can be charged for, the higher the rental cost for that connection to the power station (interesting problems for medium and high density dwellings versus homes). Gas as energy for cooking and heating has even worse future outcomes (except for power generation due to the polluting nature of coal ie coal dies first, then oil and then gas).
The demand for energy will continue to grow as more accessible energy allows the conservation of other resources (cheap nature water sources versus desalinated water) and more effective recycling (better recovery of resources from waste).
Disrupting these logically changes are the psychopaths of capitalism trying to squeeze blood out of all of us in order to further enrich themselves and damn the long term consequences, attempting to extend the profitability of the fossil fuel resources they own for as long as possible before dumping those investments on pension funds.
The reaction by the Parent of Android will also change as various manufacturers do damage to the brand of Android. You could likely see the creation of a new branding system ie badging specific phones as Android upgradeable. So phones that stick closer to the Android core and more open drivers, this to enable Google to directly update those phones via the play store, advantages for Google, it gets more people to the play store checking for updates to their phone (so get them in the shop door and keep them there), it strengthens the brand of Android and it gives Google the opportunity to sell another service, the updating of software for Android phones freeing some manufacturers from needing to do it.
It is pretty obvious that the current method of forcing smart phones into being disposable products is by welding self destructing batteries in place and thus ensuring the death of that phone/tablet and thus also blocking resale. This in turn will eventually force new regulations blocking this tactic (a truly insane abuse of planetary resources) and ensure a longer consumer life for those products.
The other reality of course creating and maintaining road roads is hugely more expensive than laying cable, many orders of magnitude greater. So if they are serviced by a public road at a huge loss to the state (considering traffic volumes) than why is a cable strung between poles such a nation bankrupting exercise or is the assessment being based purely upon greed and the desire for unlimited profits. Keep in mind the fibre optic cable is cheaper than laying the equivalent existing copper service over that same distance. You know what I say to this, giddyap pony express we can't afford that darned telegraph, with so few users and such huge distances, uh huh.
Well, there is the use of your name of your identity without you consent to generate profits, this not being done upon a news basis or public information basis but upon nothing but gossip basis, brings to mind the idea of the scolds bridle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., now that sounds like the best appliance for that particular application. In this case reasonable application of the law, based upon expressed intent should be that all claims made on the site are intended to be statements of fact and should be legally treated as such regardless of disclaimers. An ugly site, made by ugly people for ugly people (I wonder about the programmers willing to participate in this, as well as the funders of this, really stinks of a corporate propaganda idea to destroy individuals who challenge their rule).
Unfortunately Americas reputation is even worse when it comes to it's corporate controlled operations of the US State Department, US Department of Defence (now that is a snark use of a word, Offence would be far more accurate and truthful), US State Department and the NSA/CIA, in other people's countries, those sub-human non-citizens. What China does to it's citizens is no where near as bad as what the United States of America does to other countries citizens to feed corporate profits under the guise of neo-liberalism/conservatism.
All advertisements should be challenge able in court for truth and accuracy. Tell lies, misinform, exaggerate and use false association, all should all be punishable and those responsible prosecuted including the company that paid for the advertisements, the advertising agencies that produced the advertisement and the broadcasters who promoted the advertisements. Get caught and the fines should be triple the profits ney the revenue earned and repeat offenders should face custodial sentences in order to be rehabilitated.
The government should also advertise against buying useless shit to feed ego because it is destroying our planet and that is the truth and totally accurate.
Not being American I find hugely amusing the idea that you can solve mass shootings by giving a whole bunch of panicky untrained people guns to shoot at anyone shooting, I hope they make fully automatic sub-machine guns compulsory because many American ideas tend to become global problems. America is truly a violent country. Take the reaction to students traumatised by the shooting, Law en-FORCE-ment reactions, deny the victims their rights, deny them their privacy, search the property and then sexually molest them (a body search is a sexual assault, end of story) under threat of immediate public execution. I remember seeing all that stuff in movies about nasty NAZI Germany and the Gestapo, police state acclimatisation, holy fuck do you people have problems but hey what the heck profits first, last and everything in between (in this case arms manufacturers profits). I honestly find difficulty believing what my eyes were seeing, of how victims were being treated, of how the trauma was made far worse, this looks more like collective punishment than policing.
This has nothing at all to do with selling stuff and nothing to do with appliances or applications. This is all about who gets to be the global publishers of content, who gets the lions share of content profits, who takes 30% for doing fuck all (realistically managing a marketing engine is pretty much doing fuck all except adding massive cost to the end user).
So they are all in it, the ISPs, the internet backbone companies (may ex incumbent telcos), the online sales companies and existing publishers. The people excluded being the people producing the content, thou shalt not direct publish else thou wilst be destroyed by the DMCA and court costs. They are all fighting for monopoly domination of that 30% for doing fuck all and seeking to extend it out to 50% and even 100% ie huffington post you should be thankful for the exposure and ha ha fuck you.
Nothing to do with end users or content producers and everything to do with locking in publishing monopolies.
A patent should not be about an idea that can not be produced. So twist enough words around faster than light travel, lock it in place and then keep extending out the patent, which is what in reality does occur in tech space. Ideas are routinely claimed without any ability to apply them and then decades down the track when the ability occurs they refine the patent and extend it on from that period, effectively hugely extended patent life and simultaneously blocking other companies from developing that technology earlier.
There are many corruptions of patent and copyright law that hugely harm society and whose only purpose is the insane attempt to feed insatiable greed. Your PR stunt of I oppose 'BUT' greed first is pretty lame and disingenuous.
Shrinking will always have limits when you are looking at very narrowly defined conditions. More logical would be how to get transistors to be in more than two states, on or off, by say storing a frequency instead so that many states are possible in the same space. So instead of two states, say ten states in the same space with branches being frequency specific.
The easiest method for everyone, electric cars and the EPA can do it's regulating thing at the power station. You know it is coming, want to be a pollution pus hog, then you will be paying a large regulatory cost to do so.
So your idea is why would aliens see value in us, why bother. Consider the idea of aligned development where different species are in a similar development cycle at the same time, the most postulated theory for communications. The problem with that, is that cycle has three likely significantly different stages, primitive, transitional and modern. Primitive would be long quite long, millions of years long and modern (not us) would also be quite long again millions of years, where as transitional is much shorter basically ten of thousands of years (if you are stable enough you will make through transitional to modern and if not, oh well).
So a modern society will likely not be unable to experience and explore a transitional society, except once every few million years because that time period is so short compared to the primitive and modern time periods. A modern society might have not been able to dwell on and explore, in terms of knowledge and entertainment, a transitional society for a million years and certainly it will be the only opportunity that the current living generations of modern societies will ever get to experience that tumultuous inter social turmoil, that development and growth, the social stories and likely future outcomes. Consider the real value they would place on it, how they would seek to protect it even from itself whilst maintaining it uniqueness. A once in a ten thousand generations occurrence (not they we could be the only ones, randomness could mean one might not occur for hundreds of millions of years or a few could occur at near the same time).
How much would we pay for that life time of entertainment value, "Cranky Short Hair Crested Rock Throwing Monkey Manor" (quite a lot, tens even hundreds of billions dollars, over a life time perhaps trillions), pervey bunch;D.
So you are saying you will feed you ego prior to ensuring your own existence, the ability to express that self serving selfish ego. There is an illusion going on here and it is one created by the manipulations of modern marketing. Have a problem with something deal with it and don't pretend you are dealing with it by wishing for other people to create a solution that very well might occur far too late or never.
It was always going to be really lame when the largest crime organisation in the history of mankind starts to play at public relations after a decade of torture, blowing innocent people to bits with drones, turning countries into failed states, generating millions of refugees, being by far the largest drug dealers on planet and basically all round political and business extortionist are us. Recruiting gets pretty hard when all you get to pick from is shit and so the PR merchants must go to work. Want to be a privacy invasive douche bag that considers social democracy evil and political activists of all stripes as criminals waiting to be turned in target practice, then they have a job for you. Psychopathy a core job requirement, they only hire their own.
Ignorance of the law is not excuse, unsure about the risk, check but make no mistake, there will be an accounting, a new Nuremberg trials and claiming to be a chicken shit will not save you.
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Map of London, that has been replaced by effective GPS. The problem is operators licences, they should block mass purchase with one greedy douche bag buying them up, then slapping massive profit margins on them. Want to fix the problem, one licence per customer and you must be the 'majority' user of that licence. This should be extended out to all regulatory licences, one per customer and they must be the majority user eg fishing licences. This corruption of the principle of regulatory licences to feed the greed of corporations at the expense of the general public must stop. Taxis would be much cheaper if they were all strictly owner operator.
More simply, the lowest tender rarely produces good results. Just because they contracted the lowest tender to clean the towers does not mean it was actually done. So they tendered for a piece of paper saying it had been done and someone went up there and drained the system and immediately refilled it. Incompetence is not as destructive as corruption and corruption is what always gets incompetence in the door, greed driven stupidity.
More likely, nepotism rarely produces successes and only exists because how else will those losers get a job. The more nepotism is entrenched in a bureaucracy the worse the outcomes.
Argumentative idiot how big are the DC current losses in the wiring within a single home, seriously, how big. Also what produces the highest quality lighting DC or AC. To stupidly claim DC is as dangerous AC is just so PR=B$. Psychopathically determined to win an argument rather than discuss anything, go on have the last word.
So exposing a plot by executives to falsely inflate their bonuses at the expense of investors would get you fired, hmm, probably not, in fact the exact opposite. Basically a whole swag of liars in on a scam to inflate their bonuses, nothing more and nothing less. The attitude, so what if we get caught, we will keep our bonuses and the shareholders will get fined, bwa hah hah. This is exactly what happens when you put psychopaths in charge of anything.
Having trouble detecting psychopaths, easy solution test them all when they run and make the results public. Due to genetic conditions psychopaths fail many directly measurable emotional response tests, they absolutely can not fake it. Doing that test will solve many problems especially when it is extended out to other government employee like police officers, intelligence services operatives and analysts, doctors, nurses and teachers.
I just read it as being "Kill em all, let God sort em out". The whole idea that it is an acceptable excuse that 'er' 'um' we are dropping so many bombs we cant really track them all, is just so offensive. Sounds more like orders from the military industrial complex ie drop more bombs, the fourth quarter profits are running a little low and, you need to fire off at least ten more missiles if you are going to achieve quota for early retirement.
They should stop dropping bombs mass murdering people if they do not know what the fuck they are doing. Whoops tee hee is not acceptable for mass murdering people.
An AC wired house vs a DC wired house, death awaits you at every outlet in an AC house and it does not with a DC wired house and DC appliances will be cheaper. Branding on power systems will define their capital value, that has not occurred yet. You are stuck in the cave, basing everything that will be on what was.
Sometimes corporate executives just make stupid mistakes and sometimes corporate executives are paid to make stupid mistakes by their competitors. There a billions of dollars hidden in secret accounts in tax havens with millions shifting from account to account all of the time.
I gather you are saying that IT workers are inherently corrupt, incompetent, ignorant and stupid and would be incapable of managing their union (a big ole screw you for that insult). Yep, that $100 dollars a year versus salary losses of tens of thousands of dollars a year (saving pennies to lose pounds is the appropriate term). Unionising will solve many problems and only create one real problem, corporations attempting to corrupt those unions (face it the coolaid sucks after decades of main stream media propaganda versus the reality of history during that period, yeah, I know the internet sucks balls because it blocks the main stream media news cycle because old stories live on for ever instead of being forgotten when proven false).
So it is all really about crushing wages and employment costs as well as getting free training paid for by other countries, whilst increasing the profitability of local training. You could imagine the likely outcome where the cost of training will outpace the income to be recovered from that training, you can not beat free imported training paid for out of other countries taxes.
So keep buying the propaganda with reduced salary and worse employment conditions and inflating training costs because of course IT workers are far to fucking stupid to manage their Unions, OHHH YEAH (that idea is just so insulting).
Analogue transmission are not possible over fibre optic cable, hence they are tied to the power supply, a continuous connection from the power station to the appliance (so monitoring main power transmission lines for unexpected patterns of course digital on analogue means variable burst transmissions). So internal and external networks with no direct connections that includes power and data and shielded structures and this only for current technology gear.
Long term solution, governments being a whole lot less naughty and thus the need to keep secrets from citizens (to prevent custodial sentences for the various members of various naughty governments) diminishes (forget the lie of keeping secrets from other governments, Manning most emphatically and heroically proved that false).
The cost of complete solar systems panels and batteries is offset by the capital value they add to the property, so unlike renting a power connection and burning capital as energy, it gives the home owner something to sell. So the cost of a complete system has less impact due to the retained capital value of the system (developing branding of complete systems will have a major impact in this ie powered by Tesla or say Toyota vs a cobbled together system), pretty much no different to the air-conditioning or cooking appliances they would power.
The more this comes into practice the more rapid the shift to DC only appliances in the home this not only reducing the cost of those appliances but also the solar power system. Likely it will be cheaper to drop the mains connection than pay a connection fee and for the additional components of a home power system to allow AC into and out of the system, keeping in mind the less power the mains power system supplies and can be charged for, the higher the rental cost for that connection to the power station (interesting problems for medium and high density dwellings versus homes). Gas as energy for cooking and heating has even worse future outcomes (except for power generation due to the polluting nature of coal ie coal dies first, then oil and then gas).
The demand for energy will continue to grow as more accessible energy allows the conservation of other resources (cheap nature water sources versus desalinated water) and more effective recycling (better recovery of resources from waste).
Disrupting these logically changes are the psychopaths of capitalism trying to squeeze blood out of all of us in order to further enrich themselves and damn the long term consequences, attempting to extend the profitability of the fossil fuel resources they own for as long as possible before dumping those investments on pension funds.
The reaction by the Parent of Android will also change as various manufacturers do damage to the brand of Android. You could likely see the creation of a new branding system ie badging specific phones as Android upgradeable. So phones that stick closer to the Android core and more open drivers, this to enable Google to directly update those phones via the play store, advantages for Google, it gets more people to the play store checking for updates to their phone (so get them in the shop door and keep them there), it strengthens the brand of Android and it gives Google the opportunity to sell another service, the updating of software for Android phones freeing some manufacturers from needing to do it.
It is pretty obvious that the current method of forcing smart phones into being disposable products is by welding self destructing batteries in place and thus ensuring the death of that phone/tablet and thus also blocking resale. This in turn will eventually force new regulations blocking this tactic (a truly insane abuse of planetary resources) and ensure a longer consumer life for those products.
The other reality of course creating and maintaining road roads is hugely more expensive than laying cable, many orders of magnitude greater. So if they are serviced by a public road at a huge loss to the state (considering traffic volumes) than why is a cable strung between poles such a nation bankrupting exercise or is the assessment being based purely upon greed and the desire for unlimited profits. Keep in mind the fibre optic cable is cheaper than laying the equivalent existing copper service over that same distance. You know what I say to this, giddyap pony express we can't afford that darned telegraph, with so few users and such huge distances, uh huh.
Well, there is the use of your name of your identity without you consent to generate profits, this not being done upon a news basis or public information basis but upon nothing but gossip basis, brings to mind the idea of the scolds bridle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., now that sounds like the best appliance for that particular application. In this case reasonable application of the law, based upon expressed intent should be that all claims made on the site are intended to be statements of fact and should be legally treated as such regardless of disclaimers. An ugly site, made by ugly people for ugly people (I wonder about the programmers willing to participate in this, as well as the funders of this, really stinks of a corporate propaganda idea to destroy individuals who challenge their rule).
Unfortunately Americas reputation is even worse when it comes to it's corporate controlled operations of the US State Department, US Department of Defence (now that is a snark use of a word, Offence would be far more accurate and truthful), US State Department and the NSA/CIA, in other people's countries, those sub-human non-citizens. What China does to it's citizens is no where near as bad as what the United States of America does to other countries citizens to feed corporate profits under the guise of neo-liberalism/conservatism.
All advertisements should be challenge able in court for truth and accuracy. Tell lies, misinform, exaggerate and use false association, all should all be punishable and those responsible prosecuted including the company that paid for the advertisements, the advertising agencies that produced the advertisement and the broadcasters who promoted the advertisements. Get caught and the fines should be triple the profits ney the revenue earned and repeat offenders should face custodial sentences in order to be rehabilitated.
The government should also advertise against buying useless shit to feed ego because it is destroying our planet and that is the truth and totally accurate.
Not being American I find hugely amusing the idea that you can solve mass shootings by giving a whole bunch of panicky untrained people guns to shoot at anyone shooting, I hope they make fully automatic sub-machine guns compulsory because many American ideas tend to become global problems. America is truly a violent country. Take the reaction to students traumatised by the shooting, Law en-FORCE-ment reactions, deny the victims their rights, deny them their privacy, search the property and then sexually molest them (a body search is a sexual assault, end of story) under threat of immediate public execution. I remember seeing all that stuff in movies about nasty NAZI Germany and the Gestapo, police state acclimatisation, holy fuck do you people have problems but hey what the heck profits first, last and everything in between (in this case arms manufacturers profits). I honestly find difficulty believing what my eyes were seeing, of how victims were being treated, of how the trauma was made far worse, this looks more like collective punishment than policing.
This has nothing at all to do with selling stuff and nothing to do with appliances or applications. This is all about who gets to be the global publishers of content, who gets the lions share of content profits, who takes 30% for doing fuck all (realistically managing a marketing engine is pretty much doing fuck all except adding massive cost to the end user).
So they are all in it, the ISPs, the internet backbone companies (may ex incumbent telcos), the online sales companies and existing publishers. The people excluded being the people producing the content, thou shalt not direct publish else thou wilst be destroyed by the DMCA and court costs. They are all fighting for monopoly domination of that 30% for doing fuck all and seeking to extend it out to 50% and even 100% ie huffington post you should be thankful for the exposure and ha ha fuck you.
Nothing to do with end users or content producers and everything to do with locking in publishing monopolies.
A patent should not be about an idea that can not be produced. So twist enough words around faster than light travel, lock it in place and then keep extending out the patent, which is what in reality does occur in tech space. Ideas are routinely claimed without any ability to apply them and then decades down the track when the ability occurs they refine the patent and extend it on from that period, effectively hugely extended patent life and simultaneously blocking other companies from developing that technology earlier.
There are many corruptions of patent and copyright law that hugely harm society and whose only purpose is the insane attempt to feed insatiable greed. Your PR stunt of I oppose 'BUT' greed first is pretty lame and disingenuous.
Shrinking will always have limits when you are looking at very narrowly defined conditions. More logical would be how to get transistors to be in more than two states, on or off, by say storing a frequency instead so that many states are possible in the same space. So instead of two states, say ten states in the same space with branches being frequency specific.
The easiest method for everyone, electric cars and the EPA can do it's regulating thing at the power station. You know it is coming, want to be a pollution pus hog, then you will be paying a large regulatory cost to do so.
So your idea is why would aliens see value in us, why bother. Consider the idea of aligned development where different species are in a similar development cycle at the same time, the most postulated theory for communications. The problem with that, is that cycle has three likely significantly different stages, primitive, transitional and modern. Primitive would be long quite long, millions of years long and modern (not us) would also be quite long again millions of years, where as transitional is much shorter basically ten of thousands of years (if you are stable enough you will make through transitional to modern and if not, oh well).
So a modern society will likely not be unable to experience and explore a transitional society, except once every few million years because that time period is so short compared to the primitive and modern time periods. A modern society might have not been able to dwell on and explore, in terms of knowledge and entertainment, a transitional society for a million years and certainly it will be the only opportunity that the current living generations of modern societies will ever get to experience that tumultuous inter social turmoil, that development and growth, the social stories and likely future outcomes. Consider the real value they would place on it, how they would seek to protect it even from itself whilst maintaining it uniqueness. A once in a ten thousand generations occurrence (not they we could be the only ones, randomness could mean one might not occur for hundreds of millions of years or a few could occur at near the same time).
How much would we pay for that life time of entertainment value, "Cranky Short Hair Crested Rock Throwing Monkey Manor" (quite a lot, tens even hundreds of billions dollars, over a life time perhaps trillions), pervey bunch ;D.
So you are saying you will feed you ego prior to ensuring your own existence, the ability to express that self serving selfish ego. There is an illusion going on here and it is one created by the manipulations of modern marketing. Have a problem with something deal with it and don't pretend you are dealing with it by wishing for other people to create a solution that very well might occur far too late or never.
It was always going to be really lame when the largest crime organisation in the history of mankind starts to play at public relations after a decade of torture, blowing innocent people to bits with drones, turning countries into failed states, generating millions of refugees, being by far the largest drug dealers on planet and basically all round political and business extortionist are us. Recruiting gets pretty hard when all you get to pick from is shit and so the PR merchants must go to work. Want to be a privacy invasive douche bag that considers social democracy evil and political activists of all stripes as criminals waiting to be turned in target practice, then they have a job for you. Psychopathy a core job requirement, they only hire their own.
Ignorance of the law is not excuse, unsure about the risk, check but make no mistake, there will be an accounting, a new Nuremberg trials and claiming to be a chicken shit will not save you.